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Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by bryanlarsen »

InitialLastName wrote: post #10
hackeman300 wrote: post #2

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

I don't know, it would take quite a subtle prompt to get an LLM to write the sub-edited slop in the latter part of the article: > We are now again in a new inflatory phase, and this time the difference is that it does not only impact GPUs, but almost everything really important, like RAM and NVME storage. > But there’s also something new on the software side. The advent of new technologies like DLSS, FSR, and more re…

AI wouldn't have got this sentence backwards either:

> We had Witcher 3: Blood and Wine back in 2016 and while it’s the best looking game ever, it has aged very well.

I'm sure the author meant to say it's not the best looking game ever.

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

#12

Post by nottorp »

eschatology wrote: post #3
hackeman300 wrote: post #2

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying. It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.

Maybe it's because no matter how it was done this is a boring piece that talks about the tiny tiny minority of higher numbers obsessed "gamers" that do upgrade their hardware yearly.

It's not even representative for gamers as a whole.

And starting from that, it's easy to also accuse it of being LLM generated, even if it isn't.

I have no opinion because I couldn't go past the first paragraph. It's not talking about any subgroup I can identify with.

Also after skimming it didn’t say anything new or insightful. No matter if “content creator” or “AI”.

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by RGamma »

eschatology wrote: post #3
hackeman300 wrote: post #2

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying. It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.

LLMs allow you to blow up a crudely defined sentiment into a cloud of semi-plausible sounding blurb too easily.

Should we allow this to normalize, then I'm done with this part of the internet. (And I agree, one has to use this criticism with some care)

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by bryanlarsen »

exmadscientist wrote: post #7
eschatology wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying. It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.

I disagree. Articles written by AI are inherently less trustworthy (they're notorious for fabrications and hallucinations) and often have a very low content density. "Write me a 10 paragraph article about high hardware prices for my blog" is the sort of thing that expands to a lot of fluff with not a lot of content. I don't really want to read that article. Even if AI might (might) be justifiable as an editor, it's s…

This case is interesting, because it seems obvious that the AI accusation is just plain wrong. The article is riddled with the kind of grammatical and spelling mistakes that humans regularly make but that a modern AI would never make.

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by [deleted] »

eschatology wrote: post #3
hackeman300 wrote: post #2

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying. It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.

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Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by mjorgers »

Am I the only one who hasn’t felt the need to upgrade in _way_ more than just one year? I still have an old XPS 15 9560 (pushing 10 years!!!) running Ubuntu which is perfectly usable. I upgraded the ram (32Gb) and the battery, and I still consider it to be totally usable for most day to day tasks. Development, docker containers, browsing the web with an unhealthy number of tabs open. What more do I need?

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by 83 »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #14
exmadscientist wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. Articles written by AI are inherently less trustworthy (they're notorious for fabrications and hallucinations) and often have a very low content density. "Write me a 10 paragraph article about high hardware prices for my blog" is the sort of thing that expands to a lot of fluff with not a lot of content. I don't really want to read that article. Even if AI might (might) be justifiable as an editor, it's s…

This case is interesting, because it seems obvious that the AI accusation is just plain wrong. The article is riddled with the kind of grammatical and spelling mistakes that humans regularly make but that a modern AI would never make.

That could easily be part of their prompt. I just did a quick test telling Copilot to "add a few spelling and grammar mistakes to look like a human wrote it" and it does a reasonably convincing job.

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by exmadscientist »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #14
exmadscientist wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. Articles written by AI are inherently less trustworthy (they're notorious for fabrications and hallucinations) and often have a very low content density. "Write me a 10 paragraph article about high hardware prices for my blog" is the sort of thing that expands to a lot of fluff with not a lot of content. I don't really want to read that article. Even if AI might (might) be justifiable as an editor, it's s…

This case is interesting, because it seems obvious that the AI accusation is just plain wrong. The article is riddled with the kind of grammatical and spelling mistakes that humans regularly make but that a modern AI would never make.

It's also very easy to paste a paragraph in to a chatbot and ask it to revise it. Or ask it to write an introduction.

I don't really have a problem with that use of AI.

But one of the costs is reputational: potential readers are now going to assume AI wrote the whole article, fairly or unfairly. That's a consideration writers have to weigh before choosing to do this.

Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

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Post by hotsauceror »

mjorgers wrote: post #17

Am I the only one who hasn’t felt the need to upgrade in _way_ more than just one year? I still have an old XPS 15 9560 (pushing 10 years!!!) running Ubuntu which is perfectly usable. I upgraded the ram (32Gb) and the battery, and I still consider it to be totally usable for most day to day tasks. Development, docker containers, browsing the web with an unhealthy number of tabs open. What more do I need?

Agreed. Main box is 10+ years i5-4770K, I think. 16 GB RAM, GTX 1080. Runs Debian Trixie + KDE, Spotify, VS Code, docker, Steam, etc just fine.
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